Abstract
Through classical conditioning procedure, subjects give the conditioned response to the neutral stimuli (to which at the beginning no response was elicited) as a result of its pairing with the unconditioned stimuli. To reverse this procedure, extinction paradigm is performed with which several problems would arise which are renewal, reinstatement, reacquisition, and spontaneous recovery. However, memory reconsolidation view seems to offer considerable solution to those problems. It claims that acquired memories do not stay in their consolidated and stable state. Instead, every time they are reactivated, they become labile and then reconsolidated again with subsequent protein synthesis. Thus, the interventions during this labile state would offer modifications in the original memory, meaning that they could also provide a solution to the problems arisen as a result of extinction procedure. Within the scope of this review, it is examined in the light of the neuropsychoanalytic literature that whether or not the technique of free association would lead to the reactivation of original memories while rendering them labile which could also result in modifications in them.
Publisher
Ayna Klinik Psikoloji Dergisi
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